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mircea_popescu: obviously the white guys killed the red guys. the red guys sucked.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you're acting like elementary points don't somehow magically exist. that pretense doesn't do anything.
mircea_popescu: you mean the protocols of the learned elves of denver ?
mircea_popescu: in point of fact as the white man put pressure on the indians, they started crossing boundries in desperate search of food. this was very successful at preventing organised resistance - idiots too busy fighting each other.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yes. the sort of disease that kills the hungry.
mircea_popescu: but that's besides the point. being a skilled politician is never enjoyable.
mircea_popescu: yes, of the subset of skills that are enjoyable, one enjoys more the ones that are useful and he's any good at
mircea_popescu: im sure they'll enjoy it on account of "knowing how to do it"
mircea_popescu adds "teenaged californians that know how to clean toilets" to his shopping list.
mircea_popescu: why do you think the immigrants slaughtered the indians instead of persay teaching them to farm ?
mircea_popescu: allowing the common man some semblance of freedom and import for a short interval.
mircea_popescu: because their massacre makes the scant remaining life valuable,
mircea_popescu: we are however against hteir continued physical existence.
mircea_popescu: nobody is against the study of political, philosophycal, astronautical or any other knowledge defeated tribe had.
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ a lot of talk about that. point of fact is, subsistence hunters with bow and arrow.
mircea_popescu: the various people the spanyards killed are some other discussion.
mircea_popescu: so then why do you conflate the two. the people i was talking about when i said iron age were the various twerps the usians killed.
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ no, probably on account of electricity being too expensive.
mircea_popescu: and then funkenstein_ wants to tell me about the intrinsic worth of all bipedal mouthbreathers.
mircea_popescu: basically, argentinian : tribute band that is not a band and no tribute, in a bar that sells no drinks to some kids that are there because they got out of the rain.
mircea_popescu: you should have seen this thing. a space too small to keep a woman with her sister ; 5 dollar drinks ; buncha teenaged derps dressed like pizza delivery boys, backpacks i compris. which ius why nobody had a drink.
mircea_popescu: in other news, went on a lark to this "power dc" ac/dc tribute band in some "rock bar" here.
mircea_popescu: the whole thing it's such an elaborate cake of fail...
mircea_popescu: why ? wouldn't you want to know if it was at some point and is not now ?
mircea_popescu: if he hangs himself by the ears with a rope made out of state, that's his problem. but saving the thing is not that yet.
mircea_popescu: you're making the jump and presuming nonsensical usage, which may be a fair assumption in general, but not necessary here.
mircea_popescu: moreover, saving stuff to disk is not IN ITSELF a bad thing.
mircea_popescu: the bitcoin foundation has no fucking future. i say this from the same fucking throne i said mtgox has no fucking future ; and bfl has no fucking future ; and so on and so forth. it does not.
mircea_popescu: myeah. the problem being that most people have more sense than to lend their reputation to propping up the space's chief scam club.
mircea_popescu: "bruce_fenton 4 points 10 hours ago We've tried hard to invite others in, just like I just invited you."
mircea_popescu: "i don't want this email so i'll just send it back to its sender".
mircea_popescu: i can't believe this shit. dude srsly that's not how bitcoin works wtf. you can't just send btc back to originating addresses.
mircea_popescu: ing out a subhuman population. not quite monkey enough to be cute in a zoo, not quite human enough to be part of the world. uncanny valley all the way.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-09-2015#1263340 << the proposition that the library of alexandria has anything to do with a bunch of bronze-age derps is ridoinculous. that event was a clear cut case of the elites of one culture wiping the elites of another culture it had defeated. this happens to be right and proper. the solving of the indian problem is nothing of the kind, but simply the elites of a culture wip
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: this is the reason early us was so great : it correctly identified the natives as the scum that they are, by virtue of being people, and massacred them wholesale.
mircea_popescu: a sterner indictment of humanity as a species could scarcely be devised.
mircea_popescu: the only way to extract function out of the kicking-and-screaming pile of "human cultural & civilisational heritage" is to use things it doesn't know yet. unknown file extensions. unknown protocols. what have you.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so muchg fopr the ~actual~ intended usecase, where idiot can be emailed with the ml cc'd.